{"id":4155,"date":"2019-12-25T17:53:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T17:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2019-12-25T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T20:10:27","slug":"the-christmas-crib","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/2019\/12\/25\/the-christmas-crib\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crib at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4153\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4153\" class=\"wp-image-4153\" src=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191224_185320-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191224_185320-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191224_185320-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191224_185320-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/20191224_185320.jpg 800w\"  sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Christmas Crib<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You probably have a Christmas tree at home but do you\u00a0have a crib? In his recent Apostolic letter <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/apost_letters\/documents\/papa-francesco-lettera-ap_20191201_admirabile-signum.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Admirabile\u00a0Signum<\/em><\/a> about which Fr Ashley writes <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/sermon\/the-christmas-crib\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>here<\/em><\/a>, Pope Francis draws our attention to the meaning and\u00a0importance of the nativity scene and urges us to reclaim the\u00a0awe and wonder children experience as they gaze upon the\u00a0Christ Child in the manger, every Christmas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">May the\u00a0Christmas cr\u00e8che resonate in the hearts and minds of\u00a0adults also and be a lasting inspiration that nurtures their\u00a0faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I wish you all a very joyful and peaceful Christmas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Fr Steve.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Christmas Crib Offering will be donated to the <a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cathchild.org.uk\/crisis-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Catholic\u00a0Children\u2019s Society\u2019s Southwark Crisis Fund<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000080;\">There are envelope at the crib for those who are able to\u00a0Gift Aid their donations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You probably have a Christmas tree at home but do you\u00a0have a crib? In his recent Apostolic letter Admirabile\u00a0Signum about which Fr Ashley writes here, Pope Francis draws our attention to the meaning and\u00a0importance of the nativity scene and urges us to reclaim the\u00a0awe and wonder children experience as they gaze upon the\u00a0Christ Child in the manger, every Christmas. May the\u00a0Christmas cr\u00e8che resonate in the hearts and minds of\u00a0adults also and be a lasting inspiration that nurtures their\u00a0faith. I wish you all a very joyful and peaceful Christmas. Fr Steve. The Christmas Crib Offering will be donated to the Catholic\u00a0Children\u2019s Society\u2019s Southwark Crisis Fund.\u00a0There are envelope at the crib for those who are able to\u00a0Gift Aid their donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4160,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintedmunds.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}